The Diamond Mine | Essays and Criticism

  • Garnet's Iability to Have a Successful Marriage

    Poquette has a bachelor's degree in English and specializes in writing about literature. In the following essay, Poquette discusses Cressida Garnet's inability to have a successful marriage in Cather's story.

  • Artist's Personal and Professional Conflict

    In the following essay excerpt, Gerber offers a brief overview of ‘‘The Diamond Mine,’’ focusing on the conflict between an artist's personal and professional lives.

  • The Diamond Mine

    In the following essay excerpt, Meyering explores themes ‘‘The Diamond Mine’’ shares with other stories by Cather, most notably ‘‘A Gold Slipper’’ and "Scandal."

  • Anti-Semitic Overtones?

    In the following essay excerpt, Wasserman explores whether Cather's works contain anti-Semitic overtones and specifically examines Cather's choice of a Jewish character (Poppas) as ‘‘the image of the intuitive self' in ''The Diamond Mine.''